{"id":31745,"date":"2010-08-04T12:43:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T16:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=31745"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:47:23","slug":"main-line-pasek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/08\/04\/main-line-pasek\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Line Times includes letter on immigration reform by Pasek &#039;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his hometown paper, the <em>Main Line Times<\/em>, Michael Pasek  &#8217;12 of Ardmore, Pa., comments on a public opinion poll suggesting that the public supports Arizona&#8217;s new immigration law and opposes the federal government&#8217;s suit against Arizona. &#8220;But what  are people really in favor of?&#8221; Pasek writes. <!--more-->&#8220;The Constitution is a shield  against popular opinion, a safeguard ensuring that no simple majority  can overturn the institutional structure of our government.&#8221; That concept is &#8220;misunderstood,&#8221; Pasek continues. What the public actually favors in this instance is not Arizona over the U.S. but that immigration needs more regulation. &#8220;Luckily for the  majority who are in favor of tightening border security, the same  federal government suing Arizona is also advancing comprehensive  immigration reform that will do just that. The lawsuit filed on  behalf of the Obama administration is meant to protect the federal  government\u2019s ability to ensure consistent immigration policy across all  states. It is not meant to support illegal immigration.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainlinemedianews.com\/articles\/2010\/07\/27\/main_line_times\/opinion\/doc4c473afd6fe57374726845.txt\">View letter in the <em>Main Line Times<\/em>, July 27, 2010.<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his hometown paper, the Main Line Times, Michael Pasek &#8217;12 of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[175,11009],"tags":[11051,2329,4418],"class_list":["post-31745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-poverty","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-class-of-2012","tag-interdisciplinary-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82803,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31745\/revisions\/82803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}